As I noted last week, in the post about the Goat Island lighthouse in Rhode Island, there is also a Goat Island Lighthouse in Maine, near Kennebunkport. So this week, the Lighthouse of the Week post is about that one.
As you will see, it has some unique features. I'll get to those in a moment, down below. First, though, as is the norm, clicking on this link will reveal its location. Note that is quite near Cape Porpoise.
Now, about the lighthouse and the features that make it unique. I'm excerpting liberally, not conservatively, from the Lighthouse Directory:
"1859 (station established 1834). Active; focal plane 38 ft (11.5 m); white flash every 6 s. 25 ft (7.5 m) round cylindrical brick tower with lantern and gallery; 300 mm lens. Fog horn (blast every 15 s). Tower painted white, lantern and gallery black. The original 1-1/2 story keeper's house is occupied in season by caretakers. Square pyramidal fog bell tower; the bell is on display at the Kennebunkport Historical Society on North Street, Kennebunkport. ... In 2008 the Coast Guard installed a new VLB-44 LED optic. [It did have a Fresnel lens.] ... Located on an island in the mouth of Cape Porpoise Harbor southeast of Kennebunkport. Accessible only by boat (a dock is available). Site open; tower generally closed, but New England Eco Adventures offers cruises from Kennebunkport with guided tours of the lighthouse."
One of the things the directory doesn't mention, but other sites do, is that the lighthouse is connected to the keeper's house by a covered walkway. I'll bet a lot of the lighthouse keepers on frigid stormy shores wish they had that feature.
Here are other websites about this one:
Goat Island Lighthouse (New England Lighthouses)
Goat Island Lighthouse (Lighthouse Friends)
Pictures and a video below.
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